Speaker assembly

• US 9,344,785 B1
• Filed: 02/25/2015
• Issued: 05/17/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dennis A. Tracy
• Original Assignee: Dennis A. Tracy
• Inventors: Tracy, Dennis A
• Primary Examiner(s): LUKS, JEREMY AUSTIN
• Application Number:
  US14/631,449
• Time in Patent Office: 447 Days
• Field of Search: 181/144, 181/147, 181/150, 181/199, 381/351, 381/184, 381/186
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/26 Spatial arrangements of separate transducers responsive to two or more frequency ranges
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2499/13 Acoustic transducers and sound field adaptation in vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 9/022 Cooling arrangements

Abstract

A speaker assembly includes a rigid, structurally stable and self-supporting speaker housing, a first mid-range driver mounted within the speaker housing, a second mid-range driver mounted within the speaker housing, and a high frequency driver mounted within the speaker housing. A high frequency housing spacer is secured around the high frequency driver and positioned within the speaker housing to divide the speaker housing into separate and distinct compartments for the first and second mid-range drivers.

Claims

1. A speaker assembly, comprising:

a rigid, structurally stable and self-supporting speaker housing;

a first mid-range driver mounted within the speaker housing;

a second mid-range driver mounted within the speaker housing;

a high frequency driver mounted within the speaker housing;

a high frequency housing spacer secured around the high frequency driver and positioned within the speaker housing to divide the speaker housing into separate and distinct compartments for the high frequency driver, the first mid-range driver and second mid-range driver, wherein the high frequency housing spacer includes a base housing structure composed of a top wall, a side wall extending from the top wall, and an open bottom, and the high frequency housing spacer also includes first and second dividing walls extending from diametrically opposed sides of the side wall.

2. The speaker assembly according to claim 1, further including a full length dividing wall positioned beneath the high frequency housing spacer.

3. The speaker assembly according to claim 2, wherein the full length dividing wall includes a wall structure with first and second surfaces, a bottom edge, a top edge, and first and second side edges.

4. The speaker assembly according to claim 1, wherein the speaker housing includes a base structure composed of a top wall, first and second lateral side walls and front and rear side walls.

5. The speaker assembly according to claim 4, wherein, other than various apertures for passage of wires, the top wall, first and second lateral side walls and front and rear side walls are solid and impervious to the passage of sound waves or airflow.

6. The speaker assembly according to claim 4, wherein the speaker housing further includes a cover plate selectively secured to the first and second lateral side walls and front and rear side walls such that the base structure and the cover plate form an enclosure within which the first and second mid-range drivers, as well as the high frequency driver, are held.

7. The speaker assembly according to claim 6, wherein the cover plate includes air slots in fluid communication with a cavity defined by the cover plate and the high frequency housing spacer.

8. The speaker assembly according claim 6, wherein a bottom edge of the side wall is secured to an inner wall of the cover plate in a manner surrounding the high frequency driver and the first and second dividing walls extending from the base housing structure to the first and second lateral side walls of the speaker housing.

9. The speaker assembly according to claim 6, further including a full length dividing wall positioned beneath the high frequency housing spacer.

10. The speaker assembly according to claim 9, wherein the full length dividing wall includes a wall structure with first and second surfaces, a bottom edge, a top edge, and first and second side edges.

11. The speaker assembly according to claim 10, wherein the base housing structure includes a central ventilation aperture in the closed top wall and the full length dividing wall is provided with a ventilation aperture shaped and dimensioned for alignment with the central ventilation aperture formed in the closed top wall.

12. The speaker assembly according to claim 10, wherein the cover plate includes air slots in fluid communication with a cavity defined by the cover plate and the high frequency housing spacer.

13. The speaker assembly according to claim 12, wherein the base housing structure includes a central ventilation aperture in the closed top wall and the full length dividing wall is provided with a ventilation aperture shaped and dimensioned for alignment with the central ventilation aperture formed in the closed top wall.